Waxhouse Gate
WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103130
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Waxhouse Gate
- Statutory Address:
- WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103130
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Waxhouse Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14635 07118
Details
HIGH STREET 1. (South Side) 1582 Waxhouse Gate
TL 1407 SE 9/92 8.5.50.
II
2. Originally providing access on the north from the town to the Abbey, the Gate survives as an open passage through the ground floor of No 15 High Street (qv). At each end is an C18 round, stone archway; but the springing stones of earlier pointed arches are visible beneath these. RCHM VCH NMR
Listing NGR: TL1463507118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163315
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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